Tag: Transparency

Media Statement by Dr. Ong Kian Ming, MP for Serdang, on the 13th of November, 2014

According to the latest Auditor General Report 2014, Series 3, a little known Ministry of Finance owned company – Pembinaan PFI Sdn Bhd – had racked up liabilities of RM27.8 billion as of 2012 making it, then, the company with the 3rd largest liability among all government owned companies after Petronas and Khazanah (See Figure 1 below).1

Figure 1: Top Three Government Owned Companies with the largest liabilities as of 2012

Media Statement by Dr. Ong Kian Ming, MP for Serdang, on the 19th of June, 2014

On Tuesday, 17th of June, 2014, a briefing was held for the media at the Integrity Institute of Malaysia on the latest release of the National Auditor’s Report. This meeting was organized by the office of Senator Datuk Paul Low, Minister in charge of anti-corruption initiatives and attended by all the Secretary-Generals of all the Ministries including the Chief Secretary, Tan Sri Ali Hamsa.

Before the start of this briefing, the Minister asked all who were not civil servants or members of the media to leave the briefing room. He specifically asked for MPs to leave the room. The MP for Bayan Baru, Sim Tze Sim and the MP for Kuala Terengganu, Dato’ Raja Kamarul Bahrin Shah bin Raja Ahmad, who identified themselves as MPs were then asked to leave the briefing room. I did not identify myself as an MP and hence, was not asked to leave the room. I stayed on for the entire briefing.